Re: Is a General File Maintenance Routine possible?

From: Robert Wagner (robert_at_wagner.net.yourmammaharvests)
Date: 09/17/04 

Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 18:35:23 GMT

On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 17:26:49 GMT, "Tom Morrison"
<t.morrison@liant.com> wrote:

>"Robert Wagner" <robert@wagner.net.yourmammaharvests> wrote in message
>news:f95mk0ln8psf9kmkiba5jhorppn05b19de@4ax.com...
>> Is either the Relativity schema or export compatible with your ODBC
>> driver?
>
>Relativity is the brand name (registered trademark) for Liant's ODBC driver
>for RM/COBOL and Micro Focus COBOL data files.
> ...
>A detailed explanation of all this may be found in an on-line white paper:
>http://www.liant.com/download/pdf/theoryweb.pdf.

Now Relativity is clear. Thank you.

IBM mainframers may be interested to know the ODBC driver also
provides access to MVS files.

>For the truly self-abusive, you may find additional interest in the US
>Patent 5,826,076,
>http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=5,826,076.WKU.&OS=PN/5,826,076&RS=PN/5,826,076

I skimmed it wondering about Prior Art. People have been accessing 3GL
files via ODBC for many years. The patent is about the Relativity
schema format and tools that maintain it.